Who Could Ever Compete With The Moon? The True Stories Of The Astronaut Wives Club

Marge Had Been Married Before

Photo by AFP/Getty Images

To maintain the squeaky-clean image, Marge had to hide the fact that she was a divorcee from the press. Not only had she been previously married, she also came from an underprivileged background.

Despite being known as “Mother Marge”, Marge had to keep her previous love-life under wraps for fear of causing a full-on scandal. In an era when being divorced was frowned upon and sex before marriage was a massive taboo, the news would have hit the front page, if it had gotten out. These days, that just wouldn’t happen.